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Puquios (from
Quechua pukyu meaning source, spring, or
water well) are
ancient systems of
subterranean aqueducts which allow water to be
transported over...
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Puquio (from Quechua: Pukyu,
meaning "spring of water") is a town in
Central Peru,
South America. It is the
capital of the
province Lucanas in the region...
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Puquio de Núñez is a
small oasis and
orchard in the
Atacama Desert of Chile. The
oasis is
irrigated by an
underground canal, a
puquio tapping Pampa del...
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Puquio District is one of twenty-one
districts of the
Lucanas Province in Peru. One of the
highest mountains in the
district is Inka
Pallanka at approximately...
- part of the Latin-American
indigenista movement. Set in the
village of
Puquio (in the
Southern Sierra of Peru) it
depicts the
performance of a bullfight...
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Nazca Lines,
immense designs in the
desert whose purpose is unknown, and
puquios,
underground aqueducts for
providing water for
irrigation and domestic...
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Choquequirao Puquio (possibly from
Quechua chuqi metal,
every kind of
precious metal / gold (<Aymara), k'iraw crip, cot,
pukyu spring, well) is an archaeological...
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Huanca Sancos (Huanca Sancos)
Huanta (Huanta) La Mar (San Miguel)
Lucanas (
Puquio)
Parinacochas (Coracora)
Paucar del Sara Sara (Pausa)
Sucre (Querobamba)...
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additional underground aqueducts,
named puquios, in a
regional system that
still functions today. The
first puquios are
believed to have been
built by the...
- Desert. At the
oasis of
Puquio de Núñez the
water of the
aquifer is
tapped by a
system of
underground aqueducts known as
puquios.
Located 1,187
meters above...
